Screening is one of the most important concepts in the study of charged systems. Near a dielectric interface, the ion distribution in a salt solution can be highly nonuniform. Here, we develop a theory that self-consistently treats the inhomogeneous screening effects. At higher concentrations when the bulk Debye screening length is comparable to the Bjerrum length, the double layer structure an...

Plant embryogenesis creates a seedling with a basic body plan. Post-embryonically the seedling elaborates with a lifelong ability to develop new tissues and organs. As a result asymmetric cell divisions serve essential roles during embryonic and postembryonic development to generate cell diversity. This review highlights selective cases of asymmetric division in the model plant Arabidopsis thal...

We have examined the use of our bis(sulfonamide) diol ligand (1) in the asymmetric addition of phenyl groups to cyclic , -unsaturated ketones. Good to excellent enantioselectivities have been obtained with cyclic enones bearing alkyl substituents in the 2 position (71–97% enantiomeric excess). Furthermore, excellent enantioselectivities have been observed in the asymmetric phenylation of cyclic...

The title compound, C(11)H(10)N(2)O, crystallizes with two mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. The angle at the ether O atom is widened to 118.13 (15)° [117.89 (16)° for the second mol-ecule in the asymmetric unit]; the six-membered rings subtend a dihedral angle of 84.3 (1)° [87.4 (1)° in the second mol-ecule].

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the asymmetric effects of exchangerate on Iranian import price index using quarterly time series data over the period 1990- 2011. For this purpose, positive and negative shocks of the exchange rate have been separated from each other using dummy variables and the effects of the size of the exchange rate shocks by determining a threshold.The emp...

Concentrically braced frames (CBFs) are one of the efficient lateral load resisting systems in high seismicity regions. One of the common problems with the use of concentrically braced frames is limitation in the architectural application and position of the openings. Two-story X braced frames have more advantages than other configurations of concentrically braced frames, since in many cases th...

This paper describes the preparation of asymmetric cell-sized lipid vesicles from a planar lipid bilayer by using pulsed jet flow. First, the cell-sized vesicles (diameter of 5 μm in over 1 day) were stably formed using an improved double-well device wherein a separator with a small hole was mounted between the wells (Fig.1). Moreover, asymmetric vesicles of phosphatidylserine lipids were succe...

The electronic conductance at zero temperature through a quantum wire with side-connected asymmetric quantum ring (as a scatter system) is theoretically studied using the non-interacting Hamiltonian Anderson tunneling method. In this paper we concentrate on the configuration of the quantum dot rings. We show that the asymmetric structure of QD-scatter system strongly influences the amplitude an...

We present an optimal asymmetric 1 → 4 quantum cloner. Our derivation generalizes the constructions of optimal asymmetric 1 → 2 and 1 → 3 quantum cloners in [Quantum Inf. Comput 5, 583 (2005)]. We explicitly prove the optimality of this cloner and give the maximum achievable fidelities. We also present the relation between the optimal quantum cloner with the multipartite entangled state which s...

The chelate ligands 1 -3 with lateral asymmetric centers at the nitrogen atoms were prepared and characterized. In the Rh complexes 4 and 5 the asymmetric centers directly interact with those coordination positions where during enantioselective catalysis prochiral substrates are converted into optically active products. The compounds 4 and 5, as well as the in situ catalysts [Rh(COD)Cl]2/2 were...